All decent people condemn the gas attack in Syria and the resultant loss of civilian lives. But that doesn’t make it our affair. It is the affair of the Syrian nation, which happens to be in a state of war within its own borders. There is no threat to our republic. If Syria threatens our nation, then I’m all for bombing them or any other nation that threaten us.

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, author “War is a Racket” and recipient of two Medals of Honor, said, “I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light in the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China, I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.” This is always the way with our wars and interventions.

I’m no pacifist, but it is long past time we stop the constant meddling in other people’s affairs all over the world.